Teshuvoth HaRaDa”CH [responsa].

HAKOHEN, DAVID OF CORFU.

Eliezer ben Gershom Soncino

Constantinople

1537

FIRST EDITION. Title set within Soncino’s striking woodcut historiated border. Wide margins. Despite few faults, an attractive copy with wider margins.

Vonograd, Const. 160.

David ben Chaim HaKohen (beg. 15th century) was rabbi at Corfu and later in Patras, Greece. He was a disciple of the great halachist R. Judah Mintz (MaHaR”I Mintz). The title page of these responsa tells of the miraculous rescue of the manuscript from fire in the home of the author’s son R. Chaim Cohen in Adrianople (Edirne), Turkey. There is a typographical curiosity on ff.183v.-184r: Unlike the rest of the book, the text is double-spaced rather than single-spaced.